Weser, 1842

Not on View

Medium

graphite with gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20 × 31.75 cm (7 7/8 × 12 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.582

Artists / Makers

John William Casilear (artist) American, 1811 - 1893

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Weser August 13th. 1842; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 6558.G-101; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 16.20

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop

Exhibition History

1975: In Praise of Space, Westminster College Art Gallery, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania; Parsons School of Design, New York, 1975-1976

1979: Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1985: John William Casilear: A Series of Drawings of New Hampshire's White Mountains, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, 1985

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 11, no. 75.